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Francis MarionCrawford was born in Bagni di Lucca, Italy, on 2 August 1854.

Crawford was back across the Atlantic in 1881 landing in Boston to seek literary employment and possibly a career in politics though he knew little about American politics.

Crawford tried his hand at historical non-fiction with Ave Roma Immortalis (1898) and The Rulers of the South: Sicily, Calabria, Malta, (1900) and the historical novels Via Crucis (1899) and In the Palace of the King.

Crawford's autograph manuscript letters to his wife form the bulk of this collection, with other related letters, one photograph, and printed material, some originally enclosed in the letters to his wife.

With letter received by Crawford while in Los Angeles (Calif.) from Mary Augusta Redman requesting that Crawford visit her; Crawford's account of the visit is included in his letter of 4 April.

Francis MarionCrawford, descendant of the Revolutionary general and son of the sculptor, Thomas Crawford, was born at Bagni di Lucca, Tuscany, in 1854.

As to his ideas, Crawford seems to have had few that were unusual, and he disliked the employment of unusual ideas in fiction, about the aims and uses of which he is very explicit in The Novel: What It Is (1893).

Thus far Crawford was carried by his cosmopolitan training and ideals: he believed that human beings are the same everywhere and can be made intelligible if reported lucidly and discreetly.

Sara, MarionCrawford was the governess hired by Elizabeth Duchess of York to look after and teach Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in the early 1930s, and she stayed until Princess Elizabeth was married, so she was with the family during the abdication, the second world war, and Princess Elizabeth's courtship with Prince Philip.

MarionCrawford was seen to have betrayed the trust placed in her by the King and Queen.

MarionCrawford had devoted years to the princesses and had put off her own marriage until her 40s because it was never quite convenient for the royals that she should leave.

His father, Thomas Crawford, was a distinguished sculptor; his mother, Louisa Ward, was a sister of Mrs.

Crawford his true field, the description of Italian life and character with its many cosmopolitan, and especially its American and English, affiliations.

While MarionCrawford in his public life always professed himself a Catholic, he can scarcely be called a Catholic novelist, and his treatment of Catholic subjects in several of his works does not recommend itself to his coreligionists.

It may perhaps be said also that both parties became aware of their common enemy, the social democrat, soon after the disappearance of the popular King whose great individual influence was of more value to the cause of a united monarchy than all the political clubs and organisations in Italy put together.

Crawford hones down his style to a greater concision than he usually mustered, and his eye on the changing social conditions of Italy in the 19th century remained as acute as in the first book in the series.

Crawford was immune to facile socialisms or de rigueur critiques of middle-class culture.

Born and raised largely in Italy, where he spent most of his adult life, Crawford was the son of the American sculptor Thomas Crawford (quite popular in the mid C19).

Extremely popular as a novelist at the turn of the 20th century, Crawford is now little read; it is somewhat ironic that he may now be best known for a few ghost stories, pieces which Crawford wrote largely to help keep his name before the public and/or to make some quick and easy cash.

Crawford was indeed a Catholic, although this fact really doesn't figure into much of his fiction (the ghostly stuff, at least) in any particularly noticeable way, although some of his non-fiction is on Catholic subjects.

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Marion HAND received a $35,000 grant to make emergency home repairs to 17 housing units owned by senior citizens, as well as provide homebuying seminars for interested public assistance recipients (1993).

FRANCIS MARIONCRAWFORD (1854-1909), American author, was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy, on the 2nd of August 1854, being the son of the American sculptor Thomas Crawford, and the nephew of Julia Ward Howe, the American poet.

After a brief residence in New York and Boston, in 1883 he returned to Italy, where he made his permanent home.

This accounts perhaps for the fact that, in spite of his nationality, MarionCrawford's books stand apart from any distinctively American current in literature.

Set chiefly in Rome during the 1860s, the novel paints a rich picture of the period, detailing the spiritual and economic problems of the aristocracy at a time when its influence and status were under attack from the emerging forces of modernity.

Indeed, it will come as no surprise to learn that not only had Crawford been born in Italian society, and heard many tales of aristocratic intrigue as gossip in his own home, at an early age, he was himself an expert fencer.

Crawford's attention to detail, and his command of Italian history, were proven again and again in his novels, as well as in a later series of histories.

The verdict of literary historians and academic critics upon the fiction writers of the years between 1883 and 1909--the period when Francis MarionCrawford was writing novels--has long since been rendered in favor of William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and Henry James.

In addition to his fame as a novelist American readers applauded Crawford as a lecturer, playwright, critic, and historian.

Ronald Howard (son of film star Leslie Howard) stars as the intensely analytical Holmes, aided by Dr. Watson (H. MarionCrawford) and antagonized by the Inspector Lestrade (Archie Duncan).The Case Of The Split Ticket: A partner in the purchase of...

'''MarionCrawford''' (1900-1988) was a servant with the British Royal Family, and governess of the children of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret who gave her the nickname "Crawfie".

After publishing the book, she was banished from court and never spoke to the Queen or any other royal family member again.

Crawford became the governess of TRH Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret of York.

Crawford has been known to say, "I might at this moment be a professor of Sanskrit in some American college;" for that idea persisted after his return to the United States, where he entered Harvard for special study of the subject.

Crawford's life has been one of hard literary work.

Crawford, the development of a story and of the character which suggested it, is the preëminent thing.

The verdict of literary historians and academic critics upon the fiction writers of the years between 1883 and 1909--the period when Francis MarionCrawford was writing novels--has long since been rendered in favor of William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, an...

Francis Marion Crawford(August 2, 1854- April 9, 1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels.

He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy, the son of the American sculptor Thomas Crawford and Louisa Cutler Ward, and the nephew of Julia Ward Howe, th...

For the first time, complete as the author intended them, here are all eight of F. MarionCrawford's supernatural pieces, including the rare story "The King's Messenger," as well as such classics as "The Upper Berth" (considered by many to be the finest ghost story ever written) and many more.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, F. MarionCrawford was one of the most prolific, widely-read novelists of the English-speaking world--a sort of Sidney Sheldon of the Edwardian era.

We 21st century readers are a bit more used to dealing with the theme of incest, but when Crawford published this tale, it must have shocked many Victorian sensibilities.

MarionCrawford (June 5, 1909 – February 11, 1988) was an employee of the British Royal Family, the governess of the children of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret who gave her the nickname "Crawfie".

However, the contract allowed the Goulds to publish even if the Palace refused.